7:07 PM,
Jan. 7, 2013

Anatok, the historic Bardstown house on the Bethlehem High School campus that was slated to be demolished.

Written by

Peter Smith

Heading off a scheduled Monday afternoon court hearing, preservationists and Roman Catholic high school representatives in Bardstown, Ky., are in talks on the fate of a historic antebellum plantation house.

The house has ties to an influential 19th century black Catholic journalist and civil rights pioneer - who grew up a slave owned by the house's residents - and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, who later lived in it.

Preservationists had sued to preserve the home, called Anatok, after the Archdiocese of Louisville had obtained permission to demolish the house as part of an expansion ...